Embodied Cognition and Action
Papers from the 1996 Fall Symposium
Maja Mataric, Program Cochair
Technical Report FS-96-02. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface / iv
Ecological Robotics: A Schema-theoretic Approach / 1
R. Arkin, F. Cervantes-Perez, and A. Weitzenfeld
The Emergence of Representation in Autonomous Embodied Agents / 7
Mark H. Bickhard
Emotion, Embodiment, and Consequence Driven Systems / 12
S. Bozinovski, G. Stojanov, and L. Bozinovska
Preliminary Evidence That Conceptual Structure Can Be Learned by Interacting with an Environment / 18
P. R. Cohen, T. Oates, and M. Atkin
Projected Plans and Situated Activity: Inventory of Objects and Workspace / 24
B. Conein and E. Jacopin
Embodied Cognition in Animals and Artifacts / 27
K. Dautenhahn
Contingency as a Motor for Robot Development / 33
E. Dedieu, O. Lebeltel, and P. Bessiere
Conceptual Change as Change of Inner Perspective / 37
E. Dietrich, C. Morrison, and M. Oshima
Embodied Conceptual and Lexical Development / 42
J. Feldman and G. Lakoff
An Ontological Perspective to Scaling Sensorimotor Intelligence / 45
C. Ferrell and C. Kemp
Virtual Mattie--an Intelligent Clerical Agent / 50
S. Franklin, A. Graesser, B. Olde, H. Song, and A. Negatu
Spatial Metaphor and the Logic of Visual Representation / 56
M. Gattis
Motor Primitives In the Spinal Cord as a Basis For Motor Learning and Action / 60
S. Giszter
Self-Organizing Neural Networks for Spatial Planning and Flexible Arm Movement Control / 64
S. Grossberg
Unilateral Neglect: Disorder of Internal Modeling or of Situated/Embodied Cognition? / 69
M. Kinsbourne
Studying the Role of Embodiment in Cognition / 72
M. Mataric
Phenomenology and Situated Action / 78
L. Loren and E. Dietrich
Learning Visual Routines with Reinforcement Learning / 82
A. McCallum
Embodiment in Language understanding: Modeling the Semantics of Causal Narratives / 87
S. Narayanan
Similarity-based Acquisition of Spatial Categories / 92
P. Papadopoulos
Elements of an Epistemology of Embodied AI / 97
E. Prem
Mechanisms of Shared Attention for a Humanoid Robot / 102
B. Scassellati
What Sort of Computation Mediates Best Between Perception and Action? / 107
M. Shanahan
On What Embodiment Might Have to do with Cognition / 113
T. Smithers
Neo-modular Systems: Architectural Principles for Cognitive Robotics / 117
L. Stein
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Represent Cognition of Robots: A View of the Internal Observer / 123
J. Tani
Reactive Responsiveness in Dialog / 129
N. Ward
Embodied Induction: Learning External Representations / 134
M. Wexler
Mental Rotation -- A Case of Embodied Action / 139
A. Wohlschlager
Embodied Cognition as Interactive Cognition / 145
R. Young